What we now call New York was originally founded as a Dutch colony and called New Amsterdam; it wasn’t renamed New York until the British took it over in 1664. Though it’s the home of sleek skyscrapers and high-rise apartments today, colonial-era New York was much dirtier and unr...
Its news — lol — to me as a life-long resident of Saratoga County that we have a NIMBYism problem concerning housing – since I’ve been born (1982) I’ve seen single family homes made up of 2×4 stud walls rise up in farm fields, wooded lots, and residential subdivisions big and...